This is an ISO disk image released by Lane Roathe, co-founder of Ideas from the Deep, as part of his 2008 keynote speech at KansasFest, an annual gathering of Apple II users. This disk image is formated for HFS and is intended for use on an Apple IIGS emulator. (The HFS filesystem is also natively supported by Mac System 2.1 — macOS 10.14.6.)

The disc image is uploaded here with Lane's permission. What follows are the contents of the volume's KFest2008_CD_Contents.txt file.

What's on the CD

This CD contains some programs and code from my personal projects. It has been nearly 10 years since I created these archives, so I'm pretty rusty on what is included, but I've done my best to give a description of each.

Lane Roathe

This is some Apple // stuff:

• BasicStuff.bxy - Some of my VERY earliest work; don't be expecting much!
• DEEPDOS.BXY - This is the OS layer used in several shipping Infocom products! (Zork Zero, Shogun, etc.)
• DUP.BXY - Disk Utility Package. I can't remember if this is the stable 2.1 or development 3.0 build. For Apple // 5.25 non-copy protected disk operations, this thing rocked with the best
• LANEDOS.BXY - This is the OS layer that was used to power the Apple // versions of BattleTech
• arm.src.bxy - the source code to the Apple Reference Magazine, including the full browser
• copyprotect.bxy - utility to copy protect your 5.25 floppies. Forget which version this is...
• cpn.bxy - code from the Copy Protection Notebook
• diskstuff.bxy - I would hazard a guess that there are some disk related programs or code in this archive
• ic.text.src.bxy - Source code in text (ie, Merlin friendly) format
• imagecopier.bxy - the Image Copier program I wrote that could copy a lot of protected floppy formats, and was fully programmable. Was never finished or officially released

This is a few of my GS related stuff:

• CD.BXY - not sure... might be a password installer ... BE CAREFUL!
• CM.BXY - not sure (USE WITH CAUTION)
• CMDS.BXY - not sure (should be safe)
• DESK.BXY - not sure
• FreeWare.bxy - some freeware stuff I did apparently (as to what it is exactly...)
• IFDLIB.BXY - Source code to the first released version of my IFD Library, which is STILL in use today (2008) to create professional games!
• ImageMaker.bxy - This is the utility I wrote to create the image animation files that IFDLib used (and also Dark Castle GS)
• KF.BXY - A simple (stupid) kansas fest hack form 1990/1991
• MAKE.BXY - not sure (maybe this is the image maker? or source or reversed?)
• MEM.BXY - Not sure... (src to memMyNDAr?)
• MemMyNDAr.bxy - simple NDA to show memory use
• MerlinStuff.bxy - some Merlin stuff (probably includes project maker)
• SW.BXY - most likely the source to spacewhiskey
• SpcWhiskey.bxy - space whiskey game
• TOWER.BXY - tower toppler game? code?
• TUNNEL.BXY - I think an experiment I did to create a tunnel effect to use in a game (never did)
• WA.BXY - WriteAway source code?
• WriteAway.bxy - WriteAway word processor
• icons.bxy - some icons (I did icons?)

OK, kinda off topic, but here is some old PC stuff:

• IFDLEVEL.ZIP - not sure
• MAKEOBJ.ZIP - will take any data file and make it into an .obj file, ready for linking into your code
• NEW11.ZIP - I think this is the set of 11 levels I created for Wolf3d
• SP.ZIP - space pizza game (first pc game, pretty bad!)
• WOLFED.ZIP - wolf3d level editor

Mac OS:

• HexEdit - have to throw this on here, might need to look in depth at some of those files!

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